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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
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Topic: Hollywood

Persis Khambatta, Indian model-actor who shaved her head for Star Trek, almost became Bond girl

Persis Khambatta rose to international fame in 1979 after playing Ilia in Star Trek, for which she shaved her head. Actor Kabir Bedi remembers her as 'a kind, sensitive person.'

Judge declares mistrial in Harvey Weinstein’s rape charge, third sex crimes trial planned

Justice Curtis Farber ended the trial after the jury foreperson refused to deliberate for a 6th day, after multiple days of dissension among jurors that at times was aired in the courtroom.

Hotel staffer testifies in court says Combs tried to hide 2016 assault footage

Sean 'Diddy' Combs paid hotel security for surveillance footage showing him violently attacking his then-girlfriend Casandra Ventura in a hallway, promising to 'take care' of the employee.

Closing arguments to begin in Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault retrial

Weinstein's 2020 conviction was overturned by a state appeals court resulting in another rape and sexual assault trial. The Miramax studio co-founder has pleaded not guilty.

Former assistant testifies that Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs raped her twice

The hip-hop mogul stands trial for sex trafficking and racketeering, and multiple allegations of sexual assault. Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs trial bolster racketeering, ecstasy and bribery accusations

Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty in federal court to one count of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking & two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs declares love for supporters amid trial, asks bystander to pass message to son

The American rapper is currently on trial in New York for charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution, to which he has pleaded not guilty.

LJ Smith, best-selling author of The Vampire Diaries, dies at age 66

The New York Times best-seller died on March 8 in Walnut Creek, Calif, after suffering the effects of a rare autoimmune disease for a decade.

Fact Check: Robert De Niro did not say ‘f**k Trump’ at Oscars 2025, speech is from 2018

The viral video featuring the Hollywood actor is from the 2018 edition of the Tony Awards. The statement, at the time, had got De Niro a standing ovation from the audience.

Rapper A$AP Rocky acquitted in 2021 Hollywood gun assault case

The jury acquitted him of two felony counts of assault with a semi-automatic weapon in a Hollywood altercation with another hip-hop artist.

On Camera

Road building is a money-making racket in India. And we have a very short memory

We get very angry when rain disrupts our lives and brings our cities to a halt, but by the time the elections come around, we have forgotten how angry we were.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.